Friday, September 22, 2017

Work continues at 59 Second Ave., where sidewalk-bridge signage has arrived for Kona Coffee and Company here between Third Street and Fourth Street.

Don't know too much about this operation. Their Facebook account notes that their beans "come from small, family-owned farms in Kona."

This is already a pretty competitive stretch for coffee, with the Bean set up almost directly across the Avenue ... and the Coffee Project and Southern Cross on Fifth Street just off the Avenue. (Not to mention two corner delis.)

i miss those narrow stores all over the neighborhood, on avenues and crosstown streets, that had a coffee counter that served bagels, toast and numbers along with cigaretts, candy, nespapers and school spplies.coffee was under $1 anf they knew your name, they were warm in winter and cool in summerl opened early and closed late.

There's also Think Coffee on the Bowery, almost parallel,one block west. Add in Pour T on 3rd Ave and 5th St...and coffee served at the Mexican deli on 4th St between 2nd and 3rd Aves..

Meanwhile, what I really miss is Podunk - tea, for sure, but a wonderful atmosphere and part of the fabric of the neighborhood. In case you are looking for the new iteration of Podunk, go to Pink Moose @ 58th St & 1st Ave.

Not all coffee places are alike. Equating a new coffee place to The Bean is akin to equating a new restaurant to McDonalds. The Bean has the worst, old, over-roasted, low quality coffee around but charges the same prices as everybody else.

If you google Kona Coffee and Company, you will see that the owners have given their cafe 5 star reviews. In mid October. It is now November, and the place is still a construction site. So the owners are so proud of their construction site that they are giving the construction a 5 star review. Not a good prediction of their business integrity.

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